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It’s time for Top Ten Tuesday. This is a weekly challenge hosted by The Brooke and the Bookish. This week’s challenge is a freebie . We get to choose any genre we want that we’ve recently added to our TBR. If you want to participate in this weekly meme, be sure to go check out Brooke’s blog!

This is a strange list for me to be making because contemporary is normally really out of my comfort zone. I’ve been trying to branch out more and more lately though and the summer feels like a perfect time to give lighter contemporaries a fair shot. I’ve been purchasing a lot and adding lots of my TBR lately. If you have any suggestions for me that would be amazing. Not 100% familiar with the category, so I’m still really out-of-the-loop with this genre. Here are my top ten contemporaries that I really want to read and added to my TBR!

Dimple Meets Rishi by Sandya Menon

This sounds so cute (I have a feeling I’m going to be saying that a lot in this list!). The book centers around two young American-Indians who have been arranged to be married. The guy is very much a traditionalist and is all for the marriage but the girl has other plans for her life. Sounds like a really great book and I believe it is an #ownvoice author and that always makes me much more excited to read. How gorgeous is this cover?!?!?

This is a few days later but better late than never, right? I went a little over-board this month – this is only part of my haul. A thift-store haul will be coming later this month. There were just too many to put into the one haul this month. I’m pretty excited about a lot of these ones though!

Frogkisser by Garth Nix – I really need to get a good photo of this later. It really doesn’t do the cover justice. This cover is STUNNING! If this book is terrible, I’ll stick keep it for the cover alone (yes, I’m very shallow when it comes to book covers!). This is a retelling of The Frog Prince – can’t wait. I should mention, that this is a middle-grade book.

The Fashion Committe by Susan Juby – This was kind of an odd buy for me. It’s very out of my comfort zone but they marketed as a Project Runway type book and I was sold. I love my reality television (groan, groan – I know!). I think comparing it to Project Runway is a bit of a stretch. Yes, it’s a fashion competition but it actually ended up being a realistic contemporary novel with some deep themes such as drug addiction and neglect. I’ve already read this novel, if you haven’t read my review yet then you can check it out here . This book is CANADIAN! Lots of Canadian references, which is really cool.

This is my first time participating in Top Ten Tuesday. This is a weekly challenge hosted by The Brooke and the Bookish. This week’s challenge is Top Ten Most Anticipated Books for the Second Half of 2017. This is an easy one for me because I have many wants for the rest of the year – just have to dwindle down my list a bit! My top ten is not in any particular order, I just want them all – NOW!!!

Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab (Monsters of Verity #2)

Release Date: June 16th, 2017

I adored the first in the series, Our Savage Song, so I’ve been waiting on this one for months. This is a duology, so this will be the last we see of these characters. The cover is lovely and matches the first perfectly. I can’t wait to have this beauty on my shelf. I have this one on pre-order.

Julia Defiant by Catherine Egan

Release Date: June 13th, 2017

Yet another book where I adore the first. I believe this is going to be a trilogy and this is the second book. I highly recommend the first book. It somehow went completely under the radar when it was released and that is a shame because it was a really solid beginning. I’m really looking forward to this one, it left off with so many unanswered questions and lots of potential. Pre-ordered this as well.

“It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper.”

At birth, Ella is inadvertently cursed by an imprudent young fairy named Lucinda, who bestows on her the “gift” of obedience. Anything anyone tells her to do, Ella must obey. Another girl might have been cowed by this affliction, but not feisty Ella: “Instead of making me docile, Lucinda’s curse made a rebel of me. Or perhaps I was that way naturally.” When her beloved mother dies, leaving her in the care of a mostly absent and avaricious father, and later, a loathsome stepmother and two treacherous stepsisters, Ella’s life and well-being seem to be in grave peril. But her intelligence and saucy nature keep her in good stead as she sets out on a quest for freedom and self-discovery as she tries to track down Lucinda to undo the curse, fending off ogres, befriending elves, and falling in love with a prince along the way. Yes, there is a pumpkin coach, a glass slipper, and a happily ever after, but this is the most remarkable, delightful, and profound version of Cinderella you’ll ever read. Gail Carson Levine’s examination of traditional female roles in fairy tales takes some satisfying twists and deviations from the original. Ella is bound by … Read the rest